Weaving Designs by Bertha Gray Hayes

Weaving Designs by Bertha Gray Hayes PDF Author: Norma Smayda
Publisher: Schiffer Craft
ISBN: 9780764332463
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This book features the original sample collection and handwritten drafts of the talented, early 20th century weaver, Bertha Gray Hayes of Providence, Rhode Island. She designed and wove miniature overshot patterns for four-harness looms that are creative and unique. The book contains color reproductions of 72 original sample cards and 20 recently discovered patterns, many shown with a picture of the woven sample, and each with computer-generated drawdowns and drafting patterns. Her designs are unique in their asymmetry and personal in her use of name drafting to create the designs. Bertha Hayes attended the first nine National Conferences of American Handweavers (1938-1946). She learned to weave by herself through the Shuttle-Craft home course and was a charter member of the Shuttle-Craft Guild, and authored articles on weaving.

A Book of Patterns for Hand-Weaving; Designs from the John Landes Drawings in the Pennsylvnia Museum

A Book of Patterns for Hand-Weaving; Designs from the John Landes Drawings in the Pennsylvnia Museum PDF Author: Mary Meigs Atwater
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1447481976
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 108

Book Description
This vintage book contains an extensive collection of patterns for hand-weaving, including designs from the John Landes Drawings in the Pennsylvania Museum, with drafts and notes by Mary Meigs Atwater. This catalogue of patterns will be of considerable utility to those with a keen interest in hand-weaving, and would make for a worthy addition to collections of related literature. Mary Meigs Atwater was an extremely important figure in the revitalisation of hand-weaving in the early twentieth century, and is often described as the ‘Dean of American Hand-Weaving'. Many antiquarian books such as this are increasingly rare and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this vintage book now in an affordable, modern edition complete with a new prefatory biography of the author.
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